A year had passed since Dante met Morgana, although Morgana didn't show up much at the Crisol Castle, the current residence where Valentina Scarlet settled.
During this year, Dante finally mastered both his speech and walking. He was now approaching his second year; indeed, he had completely mastered speech and his body in less than two years of life, something far beyond what specialists in vampire children expected.
There are two types of newborns: adults turned into vampires through rituals and naturally born vampire children.
Adults who transform tend to be completely "flawed," so to speak. An example is an adult vampire transformed through ritual; they struggle greatly with controlling their desires and strength in the first years of transformation and are more prone to blood thirst.
However, a vampire baby differs; their essence grows alongside them. It's instinctual how they use their powers, and their emotions are controlled as they grow with their mentality. It's difficult to change human mentality to vampire quickly, so turning humans was set aside if they weren't children.
This wouldn't work quite well for Dante, who was reincarnated. However, as his past life was consumed by negative feelings and he barely lived his life, his mentality naturally shaped as a vampire more quickly.
Of course, Valentina and her intimidating way of teaching also helped him accept his new reality. The Mother of crooked teeth tortured Queen's messengers in front of her son and used her thirst for killing to say, "I am your mother, do not defy me," back when he was just a defenseless child.
Dante now lives a reasonably peaceful life. He wakes up every day beside the most beautiful vampire of all, he attends regular classes about the supernatural world and his reality taught by Skyla or his mother.
Dante lives on a planet called Umbral, although it looks similar to Earth, it's not quite the same.
For example, Romania, which he "saw" in a newspaper, isn't exactly the same Romania he knew from history books.
Umbral's world consists of six continents, with four of them isolated from the supernatural world, each distinct from the others. He hasn't learned their names yet because Umbral is the Human world; this is because he isn't in the Umbral World, but in Nightsphere, a purely supernatural planet where most humans have no access.
Nightsphere is, as the name suggests, the supernatural sphere of the entire world, where all races meet for business and territory. The reason? Umbral is a very small world compared to Nightsphere.
Umbral is like the Human Realm; there are kings and emperors, as well as factions with differing opinions, a medieval technological society.
It's complicated to understand; imagine Earth's technology in a Victorian era setting. Victorian-style castles and houses but with the technological touch of social media and phones.
"That's cool," Dante said while looking at images of the human world. "Maybe it really is a different world; I got confused when I read that newspaper article about Romania."
"But it's still strange to know that the mythologies from my world are real." Dante turned back to the previous page and took another good look at the image of the beautiful woman the book described.
"If I had to choose, I'd want Persephone for myself..." Dante murmured while looking at the Queen of the Underworld.
"I hope there isn't an Alucard like Viktor in this reality..." This murmur was something he occasionally released, remembering the characters he had read about.
Viktor Alucard, Nux Leander, Bai Zemin, Sol Luxuria, and other protagonists he truly feared meeting, especially Viktor Alucard, who's a Yandere at a godly level, and if he saw Dante's mother, he'd easily take her away from him...
"I really hope I don't encounter any of these three monsters out there, having my super-strong mother is enough," Dante sighed while flipping through more pages and reading more about this world.
But soon, he heard footsteps behind him and quickly closed the book before being caught up in things and embraced by big, soft bosoms.
"Hmm, so clever," Valentina murmured as she ran her hands over him and hugged him from behind.
"My son," Valentina said, and Dante quickly responded, "Yes, it's me." Then he tried to get up, but Valentina quickly forced him to stay seated.
"You know, I was thinking... how about you have a little blood?"